Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a8f992fe3c78ef7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 04:54:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9d52c2f8c05921788ffef85bf0824181 SHA-1: 0b3bbbb85300b49e168113cbf399174e1ebfed95 SHA-256: 3a8f992fe3c78ef7b1c629539b44a9d31b240f2abdccfdb0412f163655b2a89f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged as malicious due to a high number of embedded links, characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=string+to+integer+c%252B%252B'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a coordinated effort to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=string+to+integer+c%252B%252B In PDF document text
    • http://files.twogreenshoots.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738814/da23d5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.the59edsel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776858/78007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.watchmarketreview.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857734/7051820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fabricofthenorth.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695615/fee26673c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3336/9503/files/fosesutisomojofemivubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6286/1730/files/lekonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7004/5864/files/jibopidototusagujogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7388/8671/files/jelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4085/0598/files/lumefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6060/files/vaxivodamefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/38466120922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9643/8936/files/diritakizojanikaruvagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3033/8966/files/socket_programming_assignment_5_icmp_pinger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6225/5013/files/tibesibokemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4494/4542/files/30955827509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/72438278193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3856/2712/files/17572710718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/lufovuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5778/9593/files/kixugofobamewuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: brazoriacad.org 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6453 4648 bytes
SHA-256: 0e9e032f99458cd94da7789fe6f4cdf11bceb0bead79e79bcb4da95ccf93c6e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000743e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743E 15752 bytes
SHA-256: 4858b3d4779f6348507b5f40b0e25ef1e1719e9498b3ac28b736f9f5e8725f43